Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Rx Firms Dumping in Albania - The World Health Organization says pharmaceutical firms have been shipping tons of unwanted inventory to Kosovar refugees, apparently for the tax writeoff. By Lindsey Arent. [Wired News]   SDMI on SDMI: A Better MP3? - SDMI executive director Leonardo Chiariglione defends the standard and explains how the music industry's initiative has been misunderstood. And privacy? That's not SDMI's problem. A Wired News Q A by Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Safe Harbor Swimming in Circles - European and US negotiators admit there is still a chance of a trade war if the two regions can't agree on a privacy policy. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   Safe Harbor: No Port in a Storm? - A US government proposal to appease Europe on the hotly contested privacy-policy issue will only harm consumers on both sides of the pond, a coalition of consumer groups says. By James Glave. [Wired News]   Saudis Fed Up with Net Prices - Saudi users plan an all-day boycott to protest the high cost of connectivity. [Wired News]   Scammer Caught Red-Handed - The Miami-based Web designer pursued by Playboy Enterprises for staging fake talent contests is arrested in Atlanta. He tells law enforcement officers he did it to get on Howard Stern. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Schools Not Ready for Y2K - US Secretary of Education Richard Riley fears that some universities won't be ready when the calendar hits 2000. Financial aid could get sort of messed up, he says. [Wired News]   Schools Slobber Over Tech Cash - School bureaucrats meet at an education conference to sing the praises of technology spending. The effect of computers on test scores is still inconclusive. No matter, say educators. Just keep the tech cash coming. By Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]   Scientology Book an Open Issue - Sales of A Piece of Blue Sky have zoomed since Amazon.com reinstated the Jon Atack book on Scientology. But the online bookstore is still trying to untangle the legal muddle. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Scientology's Online Battle - The Church of Scientology subpoenas AT T WorldNet to obtain the identity of an online critic. It's part of an ongoing effort to curb the exposure of church doctrines on the Net. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Senate Backs Y2K Liability Limits - The US Senate overwhelmingly passes a measure to restrict millennium-bug liability lawsuits -- to the dismay of consumer advocates. The White House has threatened a veto. [Wired News]   Senate Committee Approves Crypto - The Senate Commerce Committee passes a bill that would relax strict controls of encryption technology. The legislation still has a long and rocky road ahead. [Wired News]   Senate Hears Y2K Liability Act - Two senators introduce the latest legislation to head off a raft of Year 2000 lawsuits arising from failed computer systems. By Heidi Kriz. [Wired News]   Senate OKs Cybersquatting Bill - The days of buying the domain names of famous people or trademarks may be numbered. The Senate sent a bill Thursday night to the House that would ban the practice. [Wired News]   Senate Raises Y2K Fears - Economic growth in the United States could come to a grinding halt because of that infamous computer glitch, according to a special Senate panel. [Wired News]   Senator Gorton: End the Madness - Senator Slade Gorton, whose Washington state constituency includes Microsoft, makes an impassioned plea on the floor of the Senate to let the company off the Justice Department's antitrust hook. The full text of Gorton's speech. [Wired News]   Senator to DOJ: Back Off - While a software trade association report urges that Microsoft be split up, the company's home-state senator trashes the Justice Department and its case. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   Serb TV Off the Air - Eutelsat, the European satellite broadcasting consortium, has taken Radio-TV Serbia off the air at the request of its member nations. Serbs aren't pleased. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Sex Offenders Want Offline - Oregon is set to launch a Web site divulging the names, addresses, and photos of the state's registered sex offenders. But a lawsuit filed by some of the offenders has kept the site from going live. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Shaky Start for Fraud Council - After a big send-off, the Internet Fraud Council is scurrying to correct the impression that it's an FBI-run venture blessed by President Clinton. It's actually a fee-based industry association. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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